Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-11

ABOUT $l7, 900, 600 Of the called three per
cent. bonds still outstanding are held by
National banks as security for circula-
tion. Comptroller Trenholm believes these
will all be replaced by other bonds by
September l.
STARTLING earthquake shocks are re.
nortaf Nh he sntly occurred in the
atains
"A SENSATIONAL international comphca.
tion is reported from Cons tantinople The
Russian Minister, talking to the Sultan,
openly accused British officials of bribery
in connection with Egyptian affairs.
AssIssANr SsomhFARr MAYNARD leIe.
graphed the collector Of customs at San
Francisco on the 9th to prevent the land
ing OF French convicts from New Caledo-
MIA should any arrive at that port. The
previous instructions on this subject were
sent by mail and it was feared the immi-
grants might arrive at San Francisco be-
fore the letter.
Hon. j. r. DODGE, statistician of the
State Department., has returned to Wash
lngton from Rome, where he has been at.
tending the first meeting of the Iuterna-
tional Statistical Institute, OF which he is
member. The institute was in session
one week, and after its close Mr. Dodge
visited the capitals of the principal Eu-
ropean nations, investigating the stats
tlcal methods of each
The indictments found against Rich
mond j. Lane, at Bos ton, last October,
for the embezzlement of S. O, 900 from the
Abingdon National Bank, have been nolle
pressed by the Government, and the mat.
ter is now practically settled Sufficient
money has been raised by Lanes friends
to satisfy the civil suits against him.
BY direction of the President it was
ordered that as mark of public respect
to the memory of William A. Wheeler, ex-
Vice-President of the United States, the
flags upon all public buildings in Wash
ington be displayed at half mast through
out the 9TH inst, the day of the funeral
of the deceased.
ARRANGEMENTS are nearly completed
for holding a saengerfest at PITTSBURGH,
Pa, next month. 1t is expected that
soloists will be present from Chicago,
Milwaukee and Cleveland. The principal
societies will attend from Harrisburg,
Reading, Erie, Wheeling, Cincinnati and
Cleveland 1t is expected that seventy
five singing societies, scomprising seven
hundred voices, will be IN attendance.
THE court in general term for the Dis
tIlCl VI AOluulD Dld uoclueu OH the OH l0dt
the act under which the Commissioners
ordered the closing of cigar stands, etc,
on Sunday was not valid, and the test
cases against G. W. Cochran and II.
Standiford were accordingly dismiss ed.
UNDER the new law regulating election
contests in Con gress, which requires the
testimony il each case to be forwarded
to the clerk of the House and printed
under his direction, General Clark, the
clerk, has received and sent to the public
printer the estimony in the contested
cases of Frank against Glover from st.
Louis; Smalls against Elliott from South
Carolina, Lowery against White from
Indiana, and WOrthington against Post
from Illinois.
THE distress in Hungary increases dai-
ly. Numerous lives have been lost and
entire herds Of cattle have been drowned
at Mako The flood has reached the
Czanad country, and fully $4,000 acres OF
wheat land will soon be inundated. Czon-
gard is submerged. 1t is calculated that
$4,000 families have been ruined by the
f1ood